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Martyimac

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Aug 19, 2009
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Over the weekend I got a low memory notification, this on a 2019 iMac with 40GB of ram. Turns out that the mail app is the offender. I shutdown the mail app and went from 3GB available to 19.5 GB available.
What is mail doing that it requires ~16GB of ram?
 
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